Nationality American Occupation Journalist, author | Name Jules Witcover Role Journalist | |
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Books The Year the Dream Died, No Way to Pick A President, Very Strange Bedfellow, Party of the People, 85 Days Similar People Jack Germond, Spiro Agnew, Richard Nixon | ||
Community Camera with Walter Smith - Jules Witcover
Jules Joseph Witcover (born July 16, 1927) is an American journalist, author, and columnist.
Contents
- Community Camera with Walter Smith Jules Witcover
- Biography
- Books written with Germond
- Books written solo
- References
Biography
Witcover is a veteran newspaperman of 50 years' standing, having written for The Baltimore Sun, the now-defunct Washington Star, the Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post. Together with Jack Germond, Witcover co-wrote "Politics Today," a five-day-a-week syndicated column, for over 24 years.
Witcover was born in Union City, New Jersey. Witcover began working in Washington for Newhouse Newspapers in 1954. He was reportedly steps away from where Robert F. Kennedy was shot in 1968. He was also one of the reporters featured in the 1972 book on campaign journalism, The Boys on the Bus, and eventually came to be seen as a "journalistic institution," according to media critic Howard Kurtz.
His most recent book is The American Vice Presidency: From Irrelevance to Power. Published in 2014, Kirkus Reviews described the work as a “valuable book of American history.” Other work includes Very Strange Bedfellows: The Short and Unhappy Marriage of Nixon & Agnew, Public Affairs (2007), and Joe Biden: A Life of Trial and Redemption. In March 2008, his history of campaign finance reform, "The Longest Campaign," appeared on the Center for Public Integrity's The Buying of the President 2008 website.